André Jacobs
Also Known As: Andre Jacobs
Biography: Andre Jacobs is an actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Johannesburg, South Africa
Birthday: March 31, 1954
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due
Overview: It’s the end of summer vacation for Amin. The young photographer spends cozy evenings with Charlotte, the ex-girlfriend of his casanova cousin. She talks to him about literature, he photographs her. Between Amin’s encounters with these women and his dreams of cinema, many choices open up to him.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
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Vir Altyd
Overview: Childhood friends, Nina and Hugo chose different paths in life. Years later, Hugo returns to his hometown unbeknownst to him, the day before Nina's wedding. Events on the wedding day throw them back together and they embark on a new adventure.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2016-02-12
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Hansie
Overview: "How do you start over once you have betrayed a nation's trust?" The news of Hansie Cronjé's involvement with Indian bookmakers and his resulting public confession rocked the international sporting community. An unprecedented rise to glory was followed by the most horrific fall. A tarnished hero fueled the nation's fury.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Hammarskjöld: Fight for Peace
Overview: A speculative biopic about Swedish UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, the anti-colonialist, allegedly queer diplomat who died under mysterious circumstances during the Cold War while trying to bring peace to the Congo.
Genres: Thriller Drama History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2023-12-25
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Second Skin
Overview: A man opens a small-town bookstore in order to escape his connections to a mobster, but is reluctantly drawn back to his dark past by a mysterious woman.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-22
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Treasure Guards
Overview: On a dig in the remote Jordanian desert, maverick archaeologist Victoria Carter (Anna Friel) discovers an ancient scroll buried in the ruins of an old temple. It is encrypted with the location of the long lost Seal of Solomon, which, according to legend, was given to King Solomon by God himself. But this mighty treasure is also being sought by, amongst others, Victoria’s estranged father, renowned archaeologist Teddy Carter, who’s soon hot on its trail.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-09-30
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Curse III: Blood Sacrifice
Overview: When an American plantation owner's wife and her sister interrupt an African death ritual to save the sacrificial goat, the witch doctor places a curse on them, summoning a god from the sea to slaughter them and anyone in its way with a panga, a curved, African machete.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-10
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Bush Pilots Do Not Kiss
Overview: Dr. Maria Berkel is on the way to her new job in a hospital of a small African village. On the domestic flight, she meets the rough-and-ready pilot Paul Freytag. At first, Maria is rejected, but with a little help from the healer N'nanga, she wins slowly the confidence of the local people. She is convinced, that contaminated water causes the disease of the villagers. But soon she realizes that people will not get sick from bacteria ...
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-05-17
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The Lost City
Overview: After surviving a helicopter crash in the uncharted South African wilderness, two young men, a girl and a renegade thief discover an ancient city unknown to civilisation.
Genres: TV Movie Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Demon Keeper
Overview: For Remy Grilland the world of the occult is nothing more than a way to swindle rich old ladies out of their money. A parlor trick. But when an expert of the supernatural comes to his seance, Remy feels obliged to summon a real spirit. In his ignorance, he brings forth a most vicious and evil demon. one known to spread misery by infiltrating the mind, playing on weakness, and leading its prey to murder. Now, locked in the house for the night, each person must find a way to evade the Demon's powers. Only the light of day will bring mercy.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-06
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Wild Maneuvres
Overview: Military-Comedy. Sequel to "Boetie gaan border toe". Boetie (Translated into English as 'Buddy' or "Brother") wants to win his girlfriend Liza back, who just dumped him. With the help of some money, he engineers that she is assigned as reporter to the planned manoeuvres, where he would love to impress her. However, things turn out different as Buddy and his comrades are assigned to do the manual labour during the manoeuvres, and the arrogant Captain humiliating them turns out to be Liza's new boyfriend. But when a bunch of criminal madmen disturb the manoeuvre and take a hostage, it is up to Buddy and his comrades to rescue the hostage, their honour - and the girl's love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: af
Release Date: 1985-06-25
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Pursuit
Overview: A mercenary is hired to hunt down a group of rebel soldiers in Africa.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Felix
Overview: 13-year-old Felix Xaba dreams of becoming a saxophonist like his late father, but his mother Lindiwe thinks jazz is the devil's music. When Felix leaves his township friends to take up a scholarship for grade eight at an elitist private school, he defies his mother and turns to two aging members of his father's old band to help him prepare for the school jazz concert.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-13
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Platoon Leader
Overview: West Point graduate lieutenant Jeff Knight meets cynicism when taking command of sergeant Michael McNamara's tour veterans platoon in a Vietnamese trench camp. Unlike his predecessor, who hid till the end of his tour, Jeff takes charge, experiences the manual doesn't allow coping with all realities and gets wounded. He returns, now fully respect by men and superiors. Besides the Vietcong, the platoon wrestles with the inscrutable villagers, which the G.I.'s officially protect, but also fear as some collaborate with them, other covertly with the Cong, either way subject to bloody reprisals.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-01
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The Bone Snatcher
Overview: After miners disappear in the Namib Desert, some scientists find their remains and the demonic creature that killed them.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-23
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Natalee Holloway
Overview: On May 30, 2005, on a high school graduation trip to Aruba, she disappeared without a trace.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-19
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Prey for the Hunter
Overview: A group of well-to-do weekend hunters decide to spice things up by targeting a human.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Black Venus
Overview: The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-10-27
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Spud 3: Learning to Fly
Overview: As Spud Milton continues his awkward stagger through adolescence, he learns one of life's most important lessons: When dealing with women and cretins, nothing is ever quite as it seems. "I'm practically a man in most areas," writes Spud confidently on his sixteenth birthday. The year is 1992 and, in South Africa, radical change is in the air. The country may be on the bumpy road to an uncertain future, but Spud Milton is hoping for a smooth ride as he returns to boarding school as a senior. Instead, he discovers that his vindictive arch enemy is back to taunt him and that a garrulous Malawian has taken residence in his dormitory, along with the regular inmates and misfits he calls friends. Spud's world has never seemed less certain; he attempts to master Shakespeare, wrestles constantly with his God, and the power of negative thinking, and develops an aversion to fried fish after a shocking discovery about his grandmother, Wombat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-16
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The Red Phone: Manhunt
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Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-11-10
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Van der Merwe PI
Overview: South African beauty and former Miss World, Anneline Kriel stars in this action comedy about Van der Merwe, a struggling private eye. The detective’s bad luck seems set to change when drug lord Jack Barnard hires him to find Barnard’s missing girlfriend, Angel Labuschagne.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: af
Release Date: 1985-11-22
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The Carpenter
Overview: An adopted viking orphan becomes a carpenter’s apprentice to Jesus. The orphan, Oren, fights as a side hustle. His experience training as a carpenter with Jesus as his mentor changes his lifestyle.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-01
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Goodbye Bafana
Overview: The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-11
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Return to Justice
Overview: Photojournalist Bo (Griffin O'Neal) and his girlfriend Angie (Tawny Fere) are captured and falsely imprisoned in Colombia. Angie's Sheriff / cowboy father Jethro (Richard Lynch) vows to use every method at his disposal to secure their freedom.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Poseidon Adventure
Overview: A cruise ship succumbs to a terrorist act and capsizes on New Year's eve. A rag-tag group of survivors, spearheaded by a priest and a homeland security agent, must journey through the upside down vessel and attempt an escape.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-20
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Inside Man: Most Wanted
Overview: An NYPD hostage negotiator teams up with a federal agent to rescue dozens of tourists held hostage during a 10-hour seige at the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-24
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The One That Got Away
Overview: The existence of the anti-Iraq coalition was threatened when Saddam targetted Israel. In order to keep Israel out of the war, and the coalition together the Scuds had to be stopped. SAS patrol Bravo Two Zero, under the command of Sgt. Andy McNab was tasked to destroy these weapons. Three of the SAS troopers were killed and four captured: Only one escaped - Cpl. Chris Ryan.
Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-18
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Curse of the Crystal Eye
Overview: A man travels through Asia and Africa seeking the treasure of Ali Baba.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-10
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Spell
Overview: A father survives a plane crash in rural Appalachia, but becomes suspicious of the elderly couple who take him in to nurse him back to health with the ancient remedies.
Genres: Thriller Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-30
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Invictus
Overview: Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby union team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-11
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The Mauritanian
Overview: The true story of the Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was held at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center without charges for over a decade and sought help from a defense attorney for his release.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-12
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Mandela and de Klerk
Overview: Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's 27-year struggle to end apartheid.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-02-16
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Breathe
Overview: Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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Nag van die 19de
Overview: Tessa walks through the small fishing community in her wedding dress every year on the night of the nineteenth, since she was raped on the eve of her wedding and her fiancé committed suicide. Piece-by-piece, she gathers information about the identity of the rapist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: af
Release Date: 1991-07-19
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Paradise Road
Overview: The love story between a German prisoner of war and a British Army nurse, in an English prison camp in Rhodesia, during World War II.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-21
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Indemnity
Overview: An ex-fireman with PTSD goes on the run when accused of a crime he doesn't even remember committing, leading him down a rabbit hole of conspiracy to the highest degree.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-02-11
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